Combined wash-board and clothes-pounder



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1-1. LAKE. GOMBINED WASH BOARD AND CLOTHES POUNDER.

No.-268,246. Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

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ATENT HAZLET ON LAKE, OF SHELBURNE, VERMONT.

COMBINED WASH-BOARD AND CL OTH ES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,246, dated November 28, 1882.

v Applicntion filed September 11, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HAzLEToN. LAKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shelburne, in the county of Chittendeu and State of Vermont, have invented newand useful Improvements in Wash-Boards, which I denominate a Combined Wash-Board and Clothes- Pouuder, of which the following is a specification.

To the common domestic wash-board, con sisting usually of a frame carrying a ribbed or fluted surface, over which clothes are rubbed in the wash-tub, I attach a clothes-pounding chamber or cup, whereby the laundress may wash the clothes by pounding,as with a clothespounder, and use,'when necessary, the ribbed surface ofthe board to rub the clothes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view in perspective of a wash-board provided with a clothes-pounder; Fig. 2, a section lengthwise the pounding-chamber;

Fig. 3, a cross-section of the same; and Fig.4,

represents a section showing openings,in connection with suction-valves, which I may use.

I provide the ordinary domestic wash-board with the clothes-pounding chamber A, which inthe example shown is simply a rectangular metallic box, open at the top and fastened to With this position of the wash-board, and, seizing it by the legs, pound the clothes after the wellknown manner of using suction-pounders, and

may use the ribbed surface of the board as fway or fastening it to the wash-board, as these can be changed in many ways without departing from the spiritof my invention; nor do 1 confine myself to the use of metal in the construction ot the pounder, as it may be of any material suitable to the purpose. It should be made stout enough to support the weight of the laundress as she bears against it when using the device as'a wash-board in the usual manner. I have, however, shown two ways of fastening the pounder or cup to the washhoard-one when the pounder-cup is a box or chamber with a bottom, which consists in passing screws a through the wash-board head, as in Fig. 2, the other, when the wash-board head forms the bottom, by lapping and nailing (ModeL) the side parts to the wash-board,as in Fig. 1.

I may use the construction shown in Fig. 4:, wherein passages 11 b are bored vertically from the bottom of said chamber or cup downward and meet holes 0 c, pierced through the washboard head. I cover the passages b bin the cup-bottom by flap-valves d d, so that as the pounder descends the valves close and as it ascends the valves open; but the pounding device is complete without this.

Iain aware that clothes-pounders are old, and I do not lay any claim whatever to any particular construction of pounder, but make them of any suitable construction or form. A device for pounding clothes, however, has never, to my knowledge, been attached to a wash-board.

It will be readily understood that the operator has perfect controlover this device when pounding the clothes,as there are two handles for grasping. The dirt is forced from the clothes as the pounder descends, and drawn from the clothes as it ascends, and as this latter movement takes some little force the two legs or handles are the most convenient means for withdrawing the'device. The improvement does not add materially to the cost of a washboard, and pounders or cups may be made separately and applied to any ordinary washboard; or the cup may consist of a chamber formed of the wash-hoard head itself. The poundingcup or chamber is also convenient as a pocket for the soap.

I may also mention that the pounding-chamber may be formed at the bottom of the washboard by nailing sides across the legs and utilizing the inner parts of the legs as the ends or short sides of the pounding-chamber.

I claim- 1. A washing-board provided with a clothespounding chamber or cup at one end.

2. A washing-board provided with a clothespounding chamber or cup, A, at one end and air-passages b I) 0 c and valves (1 d, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 

